Włoszczyzna w polszczyźnie – italianizmy w polskiej leksyce apelatywnej i proprialnej
Italian in Polish. Italianisms in appellative and proprial lexis of Polish

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of different Italian borrowings in Polish, especially in their contemporary use. The author focuses on four problems: 1) the definition of modern and historical Italian, 2) the proposition of regionalization of Italianisms, 3) lexical fields and communicative spaces which contain Italian loanwords, 4) some specific grammatical aspects of Italian borrowings in Polish, their flexion in particular. The observations are based on the corpus that counts over 1500 Italianisms found in various linguistic sources, for example in corpora and data bases of Polish. The interesting topic of this essay is the introduction of methodological classification of Italianisms into dialectal issues that helps to indicate the real linguistic origin of Italian borrowings, not only in Polish.

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